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SEE IT: Police Officer Drives Through Crowd of People in Tacoma, Washington
The video may be disturbing to some viewers.
The sheer violence of the United States these days is astounding.
There are but a few times in our history in which out nation has experienced such vast, unmitigated turbulence. And, if we're being honest, it's more than a little unnerving. We've seen political violence popping off at least weekly, if not more frequently these days. Cities like Portland, Oregon are under the constant threat of raucous rioting. Chicagoans are dodging bullets like never before in their history.
Things are tense out there, to say the least.
Now, a police officer in Tacoma, Washington is under investigation after video appeared on social media depicting their vehicle plowing through a crowd of onlookers in the street.
A Tacoma police officer is under investigation by an independent police-review body after the officer drove an SUV through a crowd, according to Tacoma Interim Police Chief Mike Ake.
Two people were injured and taken to hospitals, according to the Pierce County Force Investigation Team, which is conducting the review. The injuries are not expected to be life-threatening, and one person has been released.
Footage of the incident shared on social media appeared to show a police vehicle running over a person as onlookers scream. The department said initially that only one person was taken to a hospital. Police initially did not say what the person's condition was.
The video below may be disturbing to some.
Tonight Tacoma Police squad car, ran over a group of car spectators,downtown Tacoma on Pacific ave around 6:30 p.m.
Here's a video from my personal snapchat. pic.twitter.com/jle0fkzrJM
— Libertad Sam (@libertadsam03) January 24, 2021
The police officer has stated that he was in fear for their life, as protesters were pounding on the glass and body of the vehicle, and may have been considering harming the officer.
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Written by Cleve Corlett on 09 January 2015 .
We are in the final countdown to boating season! There have been enough warm days that we are starting to anticipate the feeling of getting back on the water.
I offer my thanks to Erin and Jonathan Matthews for solo-hosting the Saint Patrick's Day social. We had a good crowd and the food was fantastic! All in attendance were treated to one of the most spectacular sunsets I have seen at the Club. It was a good reminder of our fantastic location and facility.
Brownie has reminded me that we have hosts for each event this year except for July 4th. The Club will provide the fireworks (thanks to Sharon and Jay McGlohn), so the rest should be easy! Please talk to Brownie if you are interested in helping with this social.
As a gentle reminder, please make sure to pay your annual dues if you have not already done so. Your dues are critical to support the social and boating programs we all love at the Club, and your timeliness is integral to making them a success!
Please mark your calendar for our upcoming Work Day to get the Club grounds and boats ready for the 2019 boating season. We are trying to lighten the load by spreading the work over two days this year. Our March 30th Work Day has already passed, so please mark your calendar for April 13th. We will keep it fairly short to keep it fun, and we will call it quits by 1:00 pm for a free lunch (grilled burgers and hot dogs) and beverages (adult and otherwise) for all participants!
There are several upcoming activities as we get ready for the new season. There will be an Albacore training session following the April 13th Work Day. If you own an Albacore or want to sail one of the Club's Albacores in this year's Summer Sailing Series, drop by to learn some boat tuning tricks. Last year's Summer Sailing Series was well attended; we are hoping to get even more participation this year! No previous experience is required. If you want to learn how to race sailboats, we will get you involved as crew, skipper, or race committee!
If you want to enjoy one of our bigger boats, Scott Titus is coordinating work days to prep Snags (our Catalina 27) and Wags (our Paceship 26). Scott is also working the final details on acquiring our third keelboat (an Irwin 25). Finally, I am looking for volunteers to help restore the Siren 17 recently donated by Tony Villani. Siren 17 is a sweet, shoal draft boat with a huge, comfortable cockpit for day sailing.
Summer is coming! See you all on April 13th to prepare!


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National Improvement Hub > Learning resources > Education resources to support work with refugee and migrant children and families
Last Updated: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Education resources to support work with refugee and migrant children and families
Tags: Social Studies Health and wellbeing (HWB)
This page signposts to content that provides appropriate information, advice and support around teaching about or with refugee and migrant children, young people and families.
Practitioners who are who are developing learning opportunities around, or who are directly involved with, refugee or migrant families.
By the end of 2020 over 82 million people globally were displaced from their homes. Over 26 million were refugees and half of these were children and young people under the age of 18. War in Ukraine has added significantly to these numbers. (Source: UNHCR United Nations Refugee Agency).
Content within the following links can be used by practitioners to:
design learning opportunities to raise awareness and develop learner understanding of the issues around the refugee experience and the causes and impacts of large scale migration
develop learning experiences for refugee and migrant children and young people
signpost refugee and migrant families to appropriate advice and support
We will work to update this resource with further materials as they become available.
Raising awareness amongst learners
Supporting refugees - Wakelet
A wakelet from the Education Scotland Inclusion Equalities and Wellbeing team that includes resources and practice exemplars.
Teaching about Refugees
A collection of UNHCR teaching materials on refugees, asylum and migration for primary and secondary education, as well as some guidance for teachers working with refugee children in the classroom.
In Search of Safety: Teaching About Europe's Refugee Crisis
A teaching resource from UNICEF (UK) that allows educators to explore the refugee and migrant crisis with children and young people at school.
Education resources on refugee and asylum issues
A themed collection of resources from Amnesty International, designed to support practitioners and educators.
British Red Cross: Refugees and migration
'Help young people challenge assumptions about migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and to develop mutual respect, empathy and understanding.'
Working with refugee children
South Ayrshire Primary Padlet (password EAL2021)
A Padlet from South Ayrshire EAL that includes specific language resources, activity ideas and strategies, as well as IDL ideas.
Learning in 2+ languages
Learning in 2+ Languages is a resource from Education Scotland. It aims to help practitioners who are working with bilingual learners. It identifies good practice in supporting young people, whose first language is not English, to access the curriculum.
Refugee and Migrant Welcome Packs
'The EIS has produced a suite of educational packs to welcome young people from migrant and refugee families into Scottish schools. The Welcome Packs are specific to three age ranges (P1-P4, P5-S3 and S4-S6), and are designed to inform young people and their parents of their rights as pupils/students in Scottish education and to convey a positive, welcoming message to the young people about Scotland as their new home.'
Support to refugee and migrant families
Our new information line for Afghans resettled in Scotland - Scottish Refugee Council
The Scottish Refugee Council information line for Afghans resettled in Scotland. The line provides advice for newly arrived Afghans and will operate for one year from April 2022.
School education in Scotland
A guide to school education for refugees, published by Education Scotland.
Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Hub
The Welcome Hub is an online resource intended for those arriving in Scotland from Hong Kong.
Translations (nhsinform.scot)
Access the NHS Scotland Services Guide for Ukrainians in Ukrainian/English via NHS inform
Access the NHS Scotland Services Guide for Ukrainians in Russian/English via NHS inform
Our new online help sessions for people affected by the Ukraine conflict - Scottish Refugee Council
The sessions are run by experienced advisers from the Scottish Refugee Council, and 'will give people an introduction to their rights and information on how to access essential services in Scotland such as housing and health.'
Beginner's English for Ukrainian Families
Delivered by e-Sgoil as part of the National eLearning Offer
For Ukrainian families looking to improve their conversational English
Every week, 6 to 7 pm, beginning Thursday 12th May
Email e-sgoil@gnes.net for a link to access this free training.
Refugee Class Assistance 4 Teachers
A resource, supported by the European Commission, that can be used to enhance teacher professional learning in this area.
Mapping host countries' education responses to the influx of Ukrainian students
A UNESCO mapping exercise focusing on how host countries are supporting and providing education to Ukrainian refugees.
Supporting child refugees and their families
'This resource is designed to help people in Scotland working with and supporting children and families in professional, voluntary or personal capacity, and across Europe. This focuses on child protection and safeguarding, supporting mental and physical wellbeing including trauma, and the needs of children who require care.'
Refugee Integration Resources
A range of local authority case studies on integration within a Scottish context.
Ukraine: resources for schools and families
A selection of resources from Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT) to support schools in welcoming families from Ukraine.
Asylum seekers, Migrants & Refugees - Wakelet
From the CLD team at Education Scotland, a wakelet section which links directly with ESOL around refugees.

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Does meditation have a dark side? Can a three thousand year old practice promoted by the Dalai Lama actually harm you? Well, the simple answer is yes. Like any new endeavor taken to extremes without proper guidance and preparation, it's not without its risks.
But it's complex, and if you are interested in meditation, it's worth learning about. And I'll be honest with you, until lilcently I never gave it much thought. After meditating for 20 years, the broad arc of my experience has been exceedingly positive.
But it's included a healthy dose of pain, struggle, and suffering along the way. And I must admit, the emerging discussion around the shadow side of meditation has given me cause to reflect on my experiences.
Because meditation and mindfulness have hit mainstream, the conversation around meditation is evolving. Whereas most of the media touts mindfulness meditation as a panacea for our fast-paced first world woes, there is also a cautious minority ringing the warning bell.
Meditation, they say, is not all wine and cheese for the postmodern soul. In fact, there can be dire consequences if undertaken without correct supervision and guidance.
Of course, we've seen this pattern before with popular self-help fads. Every new free-radical fighting anti-oxidant superfood gets heralded and then debunked. New fitness fads crest and then get crushed with bruising critiques. Cross-fit exploded into the fitness industry and commanded cult-like devotion. Now, it's becoming clear that it, too, has a real down-side.
So is it really a surprise that meditation and mindfulness might be following a similar curve? In the West, it's impulse first and evidence second. And lord knows, we all worship at the altar of the next big thing. Especially if it promises relief and release from the anxiety and stress of modern life.
So yes, mindfulness and meditation is probably being set up for the proverbial fall.
What's a poor 2.5 thousand year old practice to do? Well, I guess what it's always done. Keep going. There's a reason this practice persists. It works. But I think all the new scrutiny is a welcome breath of fresh air. We are lucky to live in a time when a new window is opening and revealing novel information about this age-old practice.
In that light, I wanted to take an in-depth look at meditation's shadow side and poke around a bit to get familiar with the conversation and share it with you. Like anything, you want to go in with your eyes wide open.
And let me be clear in case it's not obvious, I am still biased and pro-meditation. But I think this discussion around the shadow side of meditation is important. It fills out the picture.
After all, it's important to remember that for most of human history, esoteric practices like meditation were only taught to very advanced nuns and monks in the monastery. And even then, there were years of pre-requisite training before one could embark on the path of meditation.
We've come a long way in a short time, seeing meditation leap continents from East to West and from the monk's cell to the Microsoft conference room. So it also makes sense that we may have missed some important turns on the road from there to here.
OK. Let's take a look at the dark side of meditation. Inasmuch as I have followed the conversation, there seems to be a spectrum of darkness. On the darker side, there are instances of trauma, psychological dissociation, and psychotic breaks.
On the lighter (and perhaps ironic) side of the spectrum, we look at the unbridled embrace of mindful meditation by groups with the traditionally "unenlightened" values of self-advancement.
So how should you take all this in? I advise you to absorb it and be well-advised. Like skiing, bunji-jumping, binge-drinking, or starting a new relationship, there are associated risks. Trauma and injury may result.
But it's also important to note that some of the more dire situations I share here were the consequence of extended meditation retreats where individuals were sitting for 10-18 hours a day for 10 days to several weeks on end. And I don't have exact number, but the percentage of people who suffer the more adverse consequences seems to be a minority.
In the end, most of the prescription for this dark side is the same, if in doubt, you should exercise caution and seek expert guidance.
Did you know that meditation can bring to the surface repressed emotional traumas that you may not be ready for? Did you know that it can also destabilize you? If not, you probably haven't heard about the Dark Knight Project?
This past June The Atlantic published a fascinating article highlighting the research of Brown University assistant professor Dr. Willoughby Britton. She calls her study "The Dark Night Project," (recently renamed "The Varieties of Contemplative Experience") and it documents the shadow side of meditation.
To be honest, I was astounded to learn about her half-way house for recovering meditators. Really? Recovering meditators? Yes, really.
It's called Cheetah House, and it's a sort of rehabilitation center for those who suffered traumatic meditation experiences. Many of these folks come to Dr. Britton as a last resort after unsuccessfully seeking out help from therapists and meditation teachers.
So what happened to these folks?
Many of them describe hellish experiences, often during meditation retreats, where they were assailed by negative emotions, thoughts, and powerful compulsions. In different ways, they were caught off guard by the inner forces unleashed through meditation.
For example, Dr. Britton describes experiences with her patients where meditation was a catalyst for things like breakups, psychotic breaks, and an inability to focus at work. Other stories chronicle otherwise well-adjusted young people losing all their drive, focus, and ambition as a result of deep meditation experiences.
In her own words, Dr. Britton's research is "an effort to document, analyze, and publicize accounts of the adverse effects of contemplative practices." According to Britton, we have abundant data on the positive effects of meditation and mindfulness, but little to no data on the negative effects.
And in her own estimation of research into the effects of meditation, "We're not being thorough or honest in our study of contemplative practice." Interestingly, there is ample funding for research into the benefits of meditation, but scant resources or interest in supporting a study of the down side.
So what should we do with information like this? It's a little like learning that your favorite aunt who could never do any wrong is exposed for being the opposite. But truth be told, as we have chronicled on this blog, meditation is hard. Part of that is struggling through disorienting, confusing, and often unpleasant experiences.
That definitely mirrors my experience. Almost all of the very intensely negative experiences I had became grist for the mill. Important learning opportunities that ultimately helped me to better understand myself.
And this leads us to the next and related dimension of meditation's dark side.
If The Dark Night Project investigates how meditation can induce trauma or trigger the release of a pandora's box of repressed emotions stored in the unconscious, then Dr. Andrew Holecek looks at it from another related angle.
In a recent blog post called "Is There a Dark Side of Meditation?", the respected Buddhist author and teacher writes about how every noble quality has an opposite shadow side. And he describes one important way that this plays out in meditation.
"Here's just one example of the shadow side. Because meditation cultivates a type of witness awareness (I'm witnessing my thoughts, I am not my thoughts), which if done properly can help us distance ourselves safely and beneficially from the contents of our mind, it can also exacerbate certain kinds of dissociative and depersonalization disorders.
There's a subtle but critical difference between differentiation and dissociation. Differentiation is good. It helps us gain perspective on our thoughts and emotions. The "near enemy" of differentiation is dissociation, and that's not so good. (Every noble quality has an ignoble shadow side, a "near enemy." The near enemy of compassion is pity, of confidence it's arrogance etc.).
Another quote from that Atlantic article that captured my attention came from a Buddhist teacher, Shinzen Young. Young teaches Vipassana meditation and here he highlights the difference between the normal struggle that one can experience in meditation and a deeper kind of struggle.
"Almost everyone who gets anywhere with meditation will pass through periods of negative emotion, confusion, [and] disorientation. …The same can happen in psychotherapy and other growth modalities. I would not refer to these types of experiences as 'dark night.' I would reserve the term for a somewhat rarer phenomenon.
Within the Buddhist tradition, [this] is sometimes referred to as 'falling into the Pit of the Void.' It entails an authentic and irreversible insight into Emptiness and No Self. Instead of being empowering and fulfilling … it turns into the opposite. In a sense, it's Enlightenment's Evil Twin.
OK, I'll be honest, I don't totally understand what he's talking about here. But it sure doesn't sound good.
Obviously, if someone falls into the pit of the void, they are probably pretty deep in. Meaning, they are likely to have a teacher already. And I imagine for this to happen, they're probably pretty far along the path already.
But as dire as this sounds, Shinzen seems confident that, like most experiences, it can be integrated and turned into an opportunity for growth.
And this is a critical point. It begs the question, what kind of preparation do people need for meditation, especially extended meditation retreats where a lot of the trauma occurs?
Removing meditation from it's original spiritual and religious contexts has implications. For one, we lose the deep framework of commitment which the tradition provides. That commitment acts like a firmament for experiences like suffering and trauma and helps people to "metabolize" those experiences.
Again, it's important to remember that meditation wouldn't begin for many novice monks and nuns until well into their monastic training. They had to practice their metaphysical scales for years before they were allowed to play their first spiritual song.
But these days, people go from a world of hyper stimulation to a sensory-deprived 10 day meditation retreat. They lack both the life experience and the knowledge of what they're going to encounter in themselves. But also, there is little of the traditional context and training that religion provided.
I have to assume that much of the emerging conversation about meditation's dark side is tracking the consequences of this relatively new phenomenon. People practicing meditation in depth without a strong and stable context of commitment and preparation.
And yet, traditions have their own shadow-side when it comes to meditation.One of the greatest sages in my own meditation lineage, the Indian saint Ramana Maharshi, has been criticized for his anti-world bias. Many spiritual teachers and religious traditions subtly or explicitly favor meditative transcendence over worldly existence.
Like a moth drawn to the flame, very deep meditation experiences can hypnotize you into believing that true fulfillment is only found in the absolute dimensions of transcendent experience. From that perspective, the world is a place of pure suffering andwe only encounter our true self deep in meditative absorption.
But to my mind, meditation should help break down the divide between the transcendent and worldly dimensions. Meditation enriches my experience of this world, not the opposite.
Truth be told, when I started to reflect on some these articles, I realized that I had suffered some of the things they are talking about. I have definitely experienced a loss of focus, intense feelings of fear, lust, doubt, aimlessness and more.
However, for most of my journey I have been blessed to share a context of support with other meditators where I could share these experiences. Also, the teaching I followed had very strict instructions for how to deal with these experiences. Ignore them. So for me, that's what I did. And eventually all the negative experiences passed when I did that.
But there is another angle that I experienced personally. It has to do with losing perspective and independence.
You see, meditation can put you in touch with powerful states of expanded awareness. Those experiences make you feel incredible.They are filled with a sense of intimacy and trust and communion. My teacher was powerful and charismatic. His presence could dramatically enhance the impact of these experiences.
But experiences like this can act like a drug. That can blinker your awareness in ways you might not suspect. For me, I inferred from those experiences with my teacher that he was special and that I could trust him absolutely.
In the process, I suspended some of my own critical and discriminating intelligence. I trusted this person so much that I always gave him the benefit of the doubt. In large part, that turned out to be a mistake.
Eventually it came to light that he wasn't living his own teaching. After spending 15 years living and working in his ashram, it all collapsed. Deep down, this wasn't a surprise, but I had been looking the other way for a long time. Still, it was devastating.
I was a bona fide "true believer." And although meditation certainly wasn't to blame, it was part of the picture. What exactly does that mean?
One thing I have learned in reflecting on that experience is that intoxicating spiritual experiences can fuel your delusion. For example, I drew erroneous conclusions about my teacher (and myself) based on his charisma and his ability to transmit very powerful states of expanded awareness.
Those experiences fueled my conviction that we really had THE answer. Looking back that seems ridiculous to me, but there you have it.
My guess is that you're unlikely to take up with a charismatic teacher any time soon, but it's important for you to be aware that even though meditation can make you feel incredible, that experience doesn't necessarily mean anything.
That's a hard lesson. In the end, it's just another experience. Sure, you can learn from it, in fact you should. But it's important to maintain lots of space around these experiences and not draw too many conclusions.
I know from experience, it's hard to do that. But I do believe meditation should help you become more awake and discriminating, not less. Clarity is hard to cultivate. Ecstatic and intoxicating experiences are just that. Intoxicating. For the sake of clarity, it's important to be calm, cool, and collected in the face of them.
One a lesser scale of darkness, I enjoyed a recent article from The New Yorker called "Meditation For Strivers" that examined an interesting new phenomenon. Meditation, traditionally an ascetic art characterized by non-attachment and shedding acquisitive values is now the darling of groups whose values seem diametrically opposed.
Wall street, capitol hill, news anchors…they are all touting the benefits of mindfulness. According to these folks, it's the new caffeine that can help you advance your career.
To the surprise and chagrin of business executives, the qualities required for meditation–grit, determination, perseverance, hard work, and commitment–aren't all that different from the modern values that drive the world of profit and ROI.
Media outlets like Bloomberg and Forbes are both tracking and backing this phenomenon. Well what do you think about that? My thinking is pretty well summed up at the climax of the article.
I you are like me, you probably looked up syncretic. It generally means to combine conflicting beliefs.
And that's what I like about this article and the time we're living in. Of course people are going to misuse meditation and mindfulness. Or rather, it's going to be lifted out of it's original contexts and used or exercised in new ways. That's how ideas evolve right? Isn't that kind of mashup the very essence of our time? It's an exciting turn of events.
On the flip side, embracing this view means that we lose the safe container of commitment that comes with cutting meditation off from its traditional roots. The great religious traditions have been secreting the flame at the heart of contemplative practice for millennia. And with it, they developed precise and subtle teachings for how to deal with many of the issues discussed in this post.
And personally, I love the deeply mystical and storied traditions around meditation.
But now, like it or not, that flame is spreading. And mostly, people are encountering meditation in contexts like this one. Online via blogs, youtube, and the web.
So to me, the more interesting question is how do we harness this interest? And how do we provide as much context as possible?
That's why we just took this brief high altitude look at some of the issues associated with the shadow side of meditation. And we probably just scratched the surface.
No doubt, this feels like an important conversation that we need to embrace. How you decide to respond to this information is obviously your call.
For me, as you've gathered, it doesn't diminish my passion for practicing meditation in the least. More, it helps to flesh out the wider range of implications and experiences associated with meditation.
Meditation is not all peaches and cream. And if you really want to understand the landscape, these are real issues you should know about. It's serious. Don't go in lightly.
Is there reason to think that we are somehow different from novices in the monastery and that the same rules protecting them from the "dark side" of meditation don't apply to the rest of us? Is our culture mature enough to handle it? I have no idea, but we're sure going to find out.
In assessing the pitfalls associated with meditation, I like this quote cited in Dr. Holocek's blog from one of my favorite contemporary Christian Mystics, Father Thomas Keating.
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Very interesting article Morgan and as you may recall that I was having a problem with the "Who am I " guided meditation in the course , I wondering if "inner me" was given me a warning , that I was not prepared enough for it. I have not tried it since . This article has given me some reason maybe why that is?
Hi David. Thank you for the feedback. I think you did the right thing trusting your gut like that.
This makes no sense at all. Meditation is diferent for all and this is just your view point, makes no sense to make an article like this its all irrelevant.
Hi Bee, I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment. The goal of this article is to share multiple perspectives on a dimension of meditation that is seldom spoken about when people are starting out in meditation. In my opinion, the fact that there is research on it being sponsored by Brown University makes this whole line of inquiry relevant, and at the very least interesting.
A very well written article. The negative side effects of meditation are really side effects of emptying deeper reservoirs of mind. Many of the things written in the article are inevitable consequences of inner exploration. This process is how detachment is strengthened until it becomes dispassion for whatever content bubbles up from mind.
My teacher only began to tell us about this stuff once it started happening because "it's more dangerous not to meditate." I couldn't agree more. Thanks again!
Excellent! In the light of a recent 10 day silent retreat – this would be my word of caution for anyone considering meditation. I saw good people in emotional pain with no safety net – and they didn't all 'break through to the other side'.
I use simple mindfulness techniques to help clients lose weight. It's a marvelous tool for living, but deep and prolonged meditation needs to be taken on under careful guidance and supervision.
Thank you Lesley. Very interesting to hear about your experience. I also participated in a number of long silent meditation retreats where some people didn't "break through to the other side" as you put it. And sometimes with dire consequences. It was certainly the rare exception and not the rule, but it's important to know that this is a side of the deeper meditation experience and expert guidance (and preparation) is key. As a good friend of mine put it, you're more likely to see someone go off the deep end from a bad breakup than from a meditation retreat. I thought that was a compelling point. Nevertheless it's still important to understand the terrain with meditation. And I agree, meditation really is a marvelous tool for living.


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By Karen Frazier
Karen Frazier
Karen is an intuitive, author, and energy healer. She teaches feng shui and energy healing classes and has written many books about energy healing topics.
Feng Shui Teacher and Energy Healer
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Deeply rooted in ancient Chinese beliefs, yin yang philosophy represents the duality of all things in the universe. The balance and harmony between yin and yang is an essential tenet in feng shui, Taoism, some forms of martial arts, and other eastern philosophies.
Roots of Yin and Yang in Ancient China
The symbol of the yin yang is recognized throughout the world. It had its beginning thousands of years ago in ancient China. The earliest symbols for yin and yang were found on oracle bones dating from the fourteenth century B.C. Oracle bones are the skeletal remains of animals the early Chinese used as a divination method. The symbols used in these inscriptions depict duality of basic natural phenomena such as day and night. Throughout the following centuries, the philosophy of yin and yang represented the beliefs of the ancient Chinese in their understanding of the workings of the universe. It represents the opposite, yet complementary, dual polarity of all existence. The universe is made up of energy, or chi, and all energy contains a balance of yin and yang.
Understanding the Philosophy of Yin and Yang
During the years 207 B.C. to 9 A.D. the Han Dynasty attempted to unify all schools of thought that existed in China. They wanted a standardized culture and philosophy and tried to fuse all schools into one system. The philosophers of the Han Dynasty focused on the I Ching, also known as the Book of Changes.
Development of the Tao
Using the I Ching, philosophers developed the Tao, which is the principle of the workings of the universe. Their new theory was made into an appendix of the I Ching, and it explains the origins of the yin yang, also known as the Five Agents School of Chinese Thought. The appendix also included an explanation of the metaphysical workings of the universe and everything in it.
The Yin Yang School of Thought is based on a single principle that the universe is run by the Great Ultimate, or Tao. The philosophy of the Tao is that everything is divided into two principles that are opposite yet dependent on one another in their existence and actions, yin and yang.
Meanings Found in the Yin Yang Symbol
Represented by the outer circle of the yin yang symbol is everything in the universe, or the whole of a single aspect of existence. The areas of white and black shapes that are within the circle represent the yin and yang. These shapes symbolize the two energies and their interaction with each other that causes everything in the universe to happen. Their flowing curvy shapes are symbolic of the constant change that takes place in the universe between yin and yang, one flowing into the other in an infinite cycle of balance and harmony.
Yin and Yang Are Present in Everything That Exists
According to the yin yang philosophy, each is present in everything that exists. The yin yang sign represents this symbolically. The large dark area has a small white circle and the white area has a small dark circle. This illustrates that just as it is in life, everything is not completely white or black, and neither one can exist alone. They must exist together, and each energy contains elements of its opposite energy.
Interaction Among Opposite Energies
The yin yang symbol gives the feeling of the strong interaction of the two opposing energies showing there is a continual movement and exchange of energy between the yin and the yang just as there is a constant exchange of the energies of life.
A Spectrum of Energy
In yin and yang, there exist a spectrum of energies that flow from one to the other eternally. For example, think about running your bathwater to just the right temperature. When you turn it purely to hot, it's too warm, so you also add a bit of cold to the hot water to temper the temperature. The bathwater you wind up with exists on the spectrum of temperature containing elements of the polar opposites of the temperature spectrum, cold and hot.
Another example of this is left brain/right brain. Brains are divided into two halves, the left and the right, with each half controlling different functions of your mind. Your left brain controls thought and reason while the right brain controls intuition and creativity. In order to have a fully functioning mind, you need both of these; you can't complete creative tasks without reasoning, and you can't adequately think through a solution without an element of intuition or creativity. The blending of these two opposite energies creates the whole that is your mind.
Components of Yin and Yang
Yin, the dark area of the yin yang symbol, is representative of the feminine aspect. Yang, the opposing, or white side of the symbol represents the masculine aspect.
Receptive
Contradicting
An up and down movement
Forceful
An up and out movement
Examples of Yin Yang
Based on the philosophy of yin yang, everything in the universe is cyclical and constant. This means that one opposing force dominates for a time and then the opposing force becomes the dominant one. It also means that in each state are seeds of their opposing force, for example in health are the seeds of sickness. Everything contains principles of its opposite, in philosophical terms this is known as presence in absence. The following are examples of the philosophy of yin yang as it is seen throughout the universe.
Heaven and earth
The cycle of the seasons as hot replaces cold
A violent storm followed by stillness and calm
Land and ocean
Sickness and health
Wealth and poverty
Power and submission
Yin and Yang Philosophy Represents Duality
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I was inspired by a webinar I recently attended, Architecting Growth–How to Crush Million Dollar Projects by Pantheon – a geek friendly managed host for enterprise WordPress and Drupal clients. This webinar is presented by their co-founder and discusses much of what they've learned providing infrastructure for larger scale projects.
You may find yourself in search of a more unique or custom solution with WooCommerce. After all, customizability is a huge selling point of WooCommerce as an eCommerce platform.
I highly recommend the article Quick Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization for WooCommerce* by Marina Pape on April 19, 2018.
Performance is a priority for all website administrators these days. As traffic scales, so too will your performance bottlenecks.
I highly recommend the article 10 Ways to Make Your Next WooCommerce Sale by Andrea Zoellner on March 29, 2018.
I highly recommend the article Understanding Automation for eCommerce Stores by Beka Rice on February 6, 2018.
View my presentation WooCommerce As a Sales Funnel for marketing tips and tricks to optimize your WooCommerce store. These techniques are useful for any site running advertisement or email marketing campaigns into WooCommerce. Its contents are also useful if running your own promotions for first time customers, flash sales, social media, and affiliate marketing.
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Come to the annual Cinco De Mayo party at Seneca Rocks. PATC-MS has reserved Group Site D at Seneca Shadows campground. Climb all day Saturday, party at the Gendarme on Saturday night.
This event is for members and registered guests of members.
We recommend putting yourself on the Google Spreadsheet, particularly if you are looking for a ride or a leader. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OmddudoH8iCG4pPuywl7xOJpD7ZYSuHNOqCvTIhY7zM/edit?usp=sharing We recommend arranging rope teams in advance. Seneca is a multi-pitch area with limited opportunities for top roping.
A few reminders. This is a crowded weekend at Seneca. The parking at the Group Site will fill up. Don't leave your car at the site when it's full, pull around to the overflow area (by the walk-in sites). The Group Site itself might fill up. If you know you are arriving late you might want to know about other options, like walk-ins or Princess Snowbird.
Plans for the party at The Gendarme have not been announced, but most likely there will be food, a show, a raffle, and a band at SRMG.


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"The new Polyfuel unit brings the state-of-the-art technologies used in the petrochemical and refining industry to the Petrobrazi refinery. Due to sustained investments, Petrobrazi continues to rank among the most important refineries in Romania, operating at the highest standards –energy efficiency and environmental standards included – and contributing to the economic development of the area", said Radu Căprău, member of OMV Petrom Executive Board, responsible for Downstream Oil.
OMV Petrom is the largest integrated oil and gas group in South-Eastern Europe, with an annual oil and gas production of approximately 65 mn boe in 2015. The Group has a refining capacity of 4.5 mn tons / year and operates an 860 MW high efficiency power plant and a 45 MW wind park. OMV Petrom is present on the oil products retail markets in Romania and neighboring countries through approximately 800 filling stations as of end of 2015.
OMV, one of Austria's largest listed industrial companies, holds a 51.01% share in OMV Petrom. The Romanian state, via the Ministry of Energy, Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Environment, holds 20.64% of OMV Petrom shares, Fondul Proprietatea (Restitution Funds) holds 18.99% and 9.36% is free float on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
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Norman weekend at Happy Mount Park in Morecambe.
The Normans are coming to Happy Mount Park on Sunday July 1, 10.30am - 4pm.
The park will echo to the sounds of swords and shields, but don't worry, they are quite friendly.
This is a chance for the whole family to see history as they've never seen it before.
The 12th century re-enactment society Historia Normannis will be bringing the world of 900 years ago back to life.
From dynamic and exciting combat, knights displaying their prowess in the tourney, displays of archery, woodwork and metal working, to the singing and music of the court of the time, Historia Normannis presents the workings of 12th century life.
The event will be located on the putting green in the park.


MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany (Reuters) - Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola and his players said sealing their place in the Champions League knockout stage was more important than a below-par performance after they drew 1-1 at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Wednesday.
City are second in Group C, four points behind leaders and guaranteed group winners Barcelona, with one game left.
"Overall we are very happy with the point and the performance of the team," Guardiola told reporters. "The result is good for both teams."
City controlled possession but Gladbach took an early lead before David Silva levelled on the stroke of halftime.
Both teams finished the game with 10 men after Lars Stindl and Fernandinho were second off for the hosts and visitors respectively.
"We controlled the game but it was not enough to win," City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne said. "We are just happy that we are through to the last 16."
"It was always about the result. After we got the red card it killed the game but obviously the result was the most important."
"It was not nice to see at the end of the match but now we are through. (Gladbach) were very compact. Even before they scored I think they just wanted to defend."
The result was also good news for out-of-form Gladbach, who secured third place and will continue in the Europa League, leaving Celtic in last place.
"We were a bit passive at 0-0," City midfielder Ilkay Guendogan said. "So maybe we deserved to fall a goal behind. We did not want to lose here and it was good timing to level right on halftime."
"We then saw late in the second half that Gladbach did not really want to score again and were happy with the point. Maybe it was not (an) exciting final 10 minutes for the fans but sometimes there are such games."
Gladbach, without a win in their last six league matches, can take credit for doing it much better than their 4-0 loss at City earlier in the season.
"It is difficult to say how much self-confidence this game will give us for the Bundesliga," coach Andre Schubert told reporters.
"It was a crazy game with a lot of twists and turns, but we are very happy that we managed to pick up a point. We are in the Europa League now - that was our aim, and we have done it."


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import { ActivatedRoute, Router } from '@angular/router';
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import { QuizStatisticUtil } from 'app/exercises/quiz/shared/quiz-statistic-util.service';
import { ArtemisMarkdownService } from 'app/shared/markdown.service';
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import { JhiWebsocketService } from 'app/core/websocket/websocket.service';
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Build affordable housing on the Gurnell Leisure centre Site - West London
Ailis Gavan started this petition to Planning ealing council
Ealing Council intends to allow developers to build luxury housing on the Gurnell Leisure Centre site in return for a contribution towards the cost of improving the swimming pool. This contribution is welcome, but it is wrong to allow development on public land which waives the usual requirement for at least 25% of new housing to be to be affordable/social stock, while we are so desperate for social and affordable housing in the area. This must no be allowed to happen.
Ealing currently has over 10,000 people on its social housing waiting list and current property prices are out of the reach of the majority of people. The average house price in Ealing is now £650,000 and average room rents are £825 pcm (£1400pcm for a 1 bed flat).
Between 2014-15 the number of social houses increased by only 68 and affordable homes to buy by 480.
People who have grown up in the Borough are having to move out, something that is happening right across London. Where are our teachers, nurses, doctors, bus drivers, cleaners, police all going to live?
We are in desperate need of affordable housing and we must all be concerned about the mass sell-off of public land. We need genuinely affordable housing, not just a new swimming pool.
Please join with me by signing a petition to Ealing Council requesting that they reconsider their policy to abandon its commitment to affordable and social housing.


reflect on their career path, competences and management skills and create their career vision as well as transfer gained knowledge and skills to their students. By the end of the programme, participants will know more about career competencies for the 21.st century, changes regarding professions, employment and labour market. They will develop core career skills to permanently plan and develop their careers, maintain balanced personal and professional roles, deal with unhealthy stress, make successful career decisions and efficient career transitions.
They will be able to adjust and use different tools and materials to effectively support students in their learning process and career planning.
Teachers (pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs), teacher trainers, student counsellors, career guidance counsellors, headteachers.
Introductory meeting, explanation of practical arrangements, presentation of timetable, information about the programme.
At the beginning, we will encourage the participants to express their expectations, needs and wishes regarding the content of the programme and the learning methods.
The participants will be encouraged to reflect on their career path using different tools (e.g. life and emotional curve, coaching cards, career thermometer, life wheel). This means the reflection on one's own career, the participants' motivation, dreams and future. The participants are enabled to address goals and possible changes in their future career. They self-assess one's own career management competencies in order to assess, which one should be developed and worked on.
Relevant theoretical models (e.g. Parsons, Holland, DOTS, Krumboltz) will be presented, basic terminology introduced and relevant skills for a 21st century career management presented. Participants will be informed about the relevant career guidance policies and the labour market. We will encourage the participants to relate the received knowledge to their own career development. They will participate in exercises that can be adjusted for their use in the classroom.
The participants will use different techniques and tools (e.g. values diamond, check lists, Dilts pyramid) to identify their values, skills and goals in relation to the four biggest influencing factors (self, family, work, wider environment) . They will compare and contrast them with the findings of the self-analysis. They will use the insights to enhance their future career path.
The participants will set medium and long-term goals for their career using appropriate coaching tools (e.g. GOAL and GROW models). They will design their own career plans. In order to realize goals, different strategies will be identified that fit the participants' wishes, expectations and attitudes. Possible obstacles will be tackled, analysed and strategies how to overcome them discussed. The concept of fixed and growth mindsets by Carol Dweck will be introduced and practiced.
The participants will analyse the gained knowledge and skills related to career development in order to identify possible future career scenarios.
They will share ideas in which way colleagues and students can be supported in their career management skills. They will make analysis of the current state and discuss possible changes. They will be supported by some materials that can be used in the classroom.
Planning follow up activities, dissemination and implementation of learning outcomes. Discussing possibilities of future cooperation among participants.
24. 11. – 30. 11.
Which competencies will you acquire in the "Career development survival kit" course?
Understanding recent theories and concepts of career development and their relation to local, national and global changes.
Understanding the different segments of the labour market and their influence on leading my career development.
Understanding the meaning and the importance of my career development for my professional and personal life.
Improving and enriching teacher's professionalism.
Interacting confidently and effectively with others to build networks.
Developing a range of scenarios for my preferred future.
Being aware of how person change and grow throughout life.
Being aware of one's skills, strengths and achievements.
Reflecting on my needs, aspirations and opportunities.
Continually reassessing my goals, values, interests and career decisions.
Learning from my own experiences and formal and informal learning opportunities to inform and support my career choices.
Being able to set short-term and long-term goals for my career.
Being able to develop strategies to reach short-term and long – term goals.
Being able to acquire information that help me in my attempt of changing my job.
Being able to manage the whole process of finding, applying and getting the job.
Being confident, resilient and able to learn when things do not go well or as expected.
Being aware of what might interfere with my goals, and I am able to develop strategies to overcome these barriers.
Being confident about using different (self) assessment/ (self) evaluation tools and techniques.
Being able to take all the steps for their transitions form education world to world of work.
Mihaela Zavašnik Arčnik (PhD) has more than 15 years of experience of working with adults and students in the education sector. She has worked in a variety of educational fields, which include: teaching in primary and secondary school, teaching in private sector, working as a assistant lecturer and professor at a university, training and coaching (head)teachers, leading (inter)national programmes and projects. Her areas of expertise include: career and professional development of (head)teachers, self-evaluation and critical reflection, strategic and action planning, middle leadership, change management, trends in education, (head)teacher evaluation. She is s trained career counsellor, internationally accredited coach (ACTP), external evaluation expert for Erasmus+ programmes and Cambridge English Language Assessment Examiner. Mihaela's main focus is to assist students, (head)teachers and other people to develop their career and professional pathways. She believes that every individual has potentials that can be successfully developed if ensured that their individual needs are met and properly addressed.


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Bring Me The Horizon collaborate with Halsey for Birds of Prey soundtrack
Bring Me The Horizon's next album might be their last proper record
Bring Me The Horizon confirm Forest Whitaker stars in new music video
Bring Me The Horizon got mini 'private gig' from Kylie Minogue
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Grimes to kill off stage name
Bring Me The Horizon add While She Sleeps and more to APE bill
by Hollywood Treatment February 7, 2019, 12:24 pm
Busted's plea to fans to get number one album
by Hollywood Treatment February 1, 2019, 7:51 am
Bring Me The Horizon release first 'straight-up' love ballad
by Hollywood Treatment January 25, 2019, 10:40 am
Halsey working on new music
Bring Me The Horizon want festivals to be more diverse
by Hollywood Treatment January 18, 2019, 3:37 pm


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Fine Woodworking : MAR/APRIL 1981 (27)
Inlaying Mother-of-Pearl Watching one banjo maker cut and fit a delicate design by John Lively T hough most often found as decoration on musical instruments, mother-of-pearl inlays traditionally have graced a diversity of articles-furniture large and small, gunstocks and knife handles, walking sticks and billiard cues. Motherof-pearl and its more colorful cousin, abalone shell, are sold in small, thin pieces (the box below lists some suppliers) , that are quite abrasive, hence hard on tools, and extremely brittle. You can't just saw it as though it were maple veneer. A highly developed craft practiced by the Chinese as early as the 14th century, mother-of-pearl inlay was very popular among the 18th-century ibinistes, and it distinguishes the work of such 20th-century inheritors of that tradition as Louis Sue and Andre Mare (pp. 44-45). To learn how to cut and inlay mother-of-pearl , I visited Richard Newman (whose banjo appeared in FWW #1 , Winter '75) at his shop in Rochester, N.Y. He demonstrated the technique by cutting a stylized Georgian dolphin in pearl, then inlaying it into a piece of scrap ebony. Here's how he did it: From his stash of mother-of-pearl chips, Newman selected one and pasted a paper cartoon of the sea beast on top of it. Next, he clamped his bird's mouth (a rectangular block with Sources of supply for mother-of-pearl and abalone Mother-of-pearl does not come from the oyster that produces seed pearls, but from various bivalve mollusks, some of which grow as large as 2 ft. in diameter. Most pearl shell is imported from the western Pacific; the cold waters of Australia produce the finest shells, less likely to be damaged by sea worms, barnacles or other parasites. Colors range from white and grey to pink and deep gold; gold pearl, from the lip of the shell, is the most expensive cut. Some pieces of pearl are preferred for their evenness of color; others are irridescent and highly figured, sometimes desig- Arthur Sweeney is a professional stringed-instrument maker. He lives in Napa, Calt! nated wavy or fiddleback after the wood figures they resemble. Abalone is cut from the shell of a monovalve mollusk native to southern Californian and Mexican waters. It is generally more spectacular than pearl , with black fractur.e lines along twisting planes of bright colors that blend and shift under changing light. There is green abalone, which has become rare, and there is larger, less expensive red abalone. The central portion of the shell, where the muscle attaches, is called the heart and is most prized. It looks something like crinkled tinfoil , sparkling with green, blue and red. Suppliers cut mother-of-pearl and abalone with a lapidary saw, attending to the figure and curvature of the shell . The pieces are irregularly shaped, usually about 1 in. square (a 3-in . piece is considered large) . Then they're ground to thicknesses ranging from 0.035 in . to 0.060 in. The thicker stock is best for curved surfaces, like fretboards, and for fine lines and sharp curves. Some suppliers grade their stock "select" (for exceptional figure and size) , "#1 " (good and clear) , and "#2" (some parasite damage) . Cost is figured by the ounce, $15 to $25 an ounce being typical . Some suppliers, as indicated below, will custom-cut designs; some provide precut blanks in a limited number of designs. -Arthur Sweeney Suppliers: Erika, 1273 1 Lorna Rica Dr. , Suite G, Grass Valley, Calif. 95945. Mother-of-pearl and abalone blanks. Handy Trading Co., 8560 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90034. Mother-of-pearl and abalone in bulk. Pearl Works, Larry Sifel, Rt. 3, Box 98B, Mechanicsville, Md. 20659. Mother-ofpearl and abalone blanks; precut designs; will custom-cut designs. Vitali ImportS, 5944 Atlantic Boulevard, Maywood, Calif. 90270. Mother-of-pearl blanks. David Russell Young, 7134 Balboa Boulevard , Van Nuys, Calif. 91406. Mother-ofpearl and abalone blanks. Chinese k'ang (a type of bed) from the tion of mother-ofpearl inlay work before it dynasty (1368-1 644) exemplifies the sophisticapopular in Europe. Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY ZaharoffIndustries, 26 Max Ave., Hicksville, N.Y. 11801. Mother-of-pearl and abalone blanks; will custom-cut designs. 0 50
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Q: Github checkout to a remote branch
I am currently on the master branch of my repo. How do I switch to the remotes/OriginalRepo/master branch? git checkout remotes/OriginalRepo/master does not work

A: Assuming that you did a pull and you're up to date , you can do: git checkout --track remotes/OriginalRepo/master

A: TL;DR
You will need to make your own branch name.  Because you already have one branch named master, you'll have a problem.  There's no single correct solution, but consider deleting your existing master, if you don't need it.  Then you can use dejdej's answer.
If you want to keep your existing master, come up with another name for this branch.  Let's say you choose xyzzy for some reason:
git checkout -b xyzzy OriginalRepo/master

will do the trick here.  You may eventually run into some more issues, but we'll leave them for another answer.
Long
Git documentation uses terms that I find confusing (both to me and to others when I am showing them how to use Git).  So instead of Git's terminology, I use my own:

*

*A branch name is a name that you have available for you to use.  In your output image,1 Relayout, getStarted, master, and signup are branch names.  These are all in green (well, there's one weirdness mentioned in the next bullet point).

*A remote-tracking name is a name that your Git has created, in your repository, based on a branch name that your Git saw int some other Git repository.  In your image, remotes/OriginalRepo/Relayout, remotes/OriginalRepo/getStarted, and so on are remote-tracking names.  These are all in red, except for the weirdness right after remotes/origin/HEAD.
So we have two kinds of names here: branch names and remote-tracking names.2  The remote-tracking names are your Git's way of remembering some other Git's branch names, but they're not branch names themselves.
Note how in your git branch -a output all the remote-tracking names start with remotes/.  If you run git branch -r, you'll get the same set of remote-tracking names, but this time Git will leave off the word remotes/.  You'll have OriginalRepo/Relayout and so on.  These are still the same names!  Git has merely left out some stuff that we didn't need this time.
All of Git's names—branch names, tag names, remote-tracking names, and other special purpose names like the one for git stash and the ones for git bisect and so on—work the same way and use a general mechanism.  Git's term for this is refs or references.  They start with refs/ and then normally have another word, like remotes/, that defines which group of names they go into, i.e., which kind of name they are.  Branch names all start with refs/heads/, tag names all start with refs/tags/, and remote-tracking names all start with refs/remotes/.  Whenever it's clear enough—which is almost always—you can leave off the refs/ part, and whenever it's clear enough, you can also leave off the heads/ or tags/ or remotes/ part.
So that's why origin/master is sufficient: as long as you didn't make your own branch name origin/master,3 origin/master will be short for your refs/remotes/origin/master remote-tracking name.  But if you like, you can write remotes/origin/master or refs/remotes/origin/master.  It sometimes feels a bit like Stella calling out Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

1StackOverflow guidelines generally ask that you post cut-and-pasted text rather than images, but in this particular case, the image has the advantage of retaining the colors.
2Git calls them remote-tracking branch names, but I find that the word branch in the middle of this phrase just makes everything messier and more confusing.  They're not actually branch names—well, not in your Git repository, anyway.
3Don't do it.  Git won't get confused as to which one is which, but you will.  But if you did it just because I said not to, you can use heads/origin/master or refs/heads/origin/master to refer to the branch name, and remotes/origin/master or refs/remotes/origin/master to refer to the remote-tracking name.  Well, mostly.  Some commands don't like the extra verbiage!

Checkout, branches, and detached HEADs
With the terminology out of the way, let's look at the question itself again:

How do I switch to the remotes/OriginalRepo/master branch?

You don't.  It's not a branch.  It's a remote-tracking name.

git checkout remotes/OriginalRepo/master does not work

But git checkout remotes/OriginalRepo/master does work, for some definition of "work".  It's just that it gets you what Git calls a detached HEAD.
What's going on here seems complicated at first, but it's not, really.  The trick is that Git does not care about branches.  Git cares about commits.  Branches—or more precisely, branch names—exist to help us, and Git, find the commits.  What matters is not the branch names, though, but rather the commits themselves.
The git checkout command actually has multiple functions.  In fact, it has too many functions: in Git 2.23 and later, it's been split into what is roughly two halves.  One is git switch and the other is git restore.  The existing git checkout command remains, and still does both sets of jobs.  We won't look at one entire set at all, and will concentrate here only on the other set: the half of the jobs that are now done with git switch.
These jobs involve extracting a commit, and also setting up your HEAD.  To get any work done in Git, we have to extract a commit.  Let's look at why this is the case.
Commits
A Git commit is a real, tangible thing.  To access a commit in Git, we must tell Git its true name.  But the true name of a commit is a big ugly random-looking hash ID, like faefdd61ec7c7f6f3c8c9907891465ac9a2a1475 for instance.  There's no way for a human to remember these things.  Fortunately we don't have to; but we'll get to that in a moment.  First, let's look at what's inside one of these things.
A Git commit consists of two parts:

*

*There is a snapshot of all the files that Git knew about, at the time you, or whoever, made the commit.  This snapshot is completely, totally read-only, and the files stored inside it are in a special, read-only, Git-only, compressed and de-duplicated format, that only Git itself can use.

*Besides the snapshot—the main data—each commit contains some metadata, or information about the commit itself.  The metadata include the name and email address of the person who made the commit, the date-and-time of the commit, and so on.
One crucial piece of information that Git sticks into the metadata for each commit is the raw hash ID of some previous commit, or in some cases, more than one previous commit.  This is how Git stores history.  The latest commit has inside it the hash ID of the next-to-latest commit.  That commit has inside it the hash ID of an earlier commit.  This repeats, so that in a simple case of a nice linear chain of commits, we have something we can draw like this:
... <-F <-G <-H

where H stands in for the actual hash ID of the latest commit.  By giving Git the raw hash ID H, Git can see what's in that commit: all the source (in the frozen, Git-only format), and also the metadata, including the hash ID of earlier commit G.
This earlier commit hash ID allows Git to find G, and extract it—all of it, or just the metadata, or whatever—which in turns allows Git to find F, and so on.  So this means that in order to use the entire chain of commits, all we really need is some way to remember hash ID H.
To use the files from the commit, though, we'll need to have Git extract them.  Git will copy those files out of the commit, restoring them to normal everyday files, which we can actually use to do work.  The process of extracting some commit is the main work of git checkout (or in 2.23-and-later, git switch).
The files you'll work with, extracted from some commit, are in what Git calls your working tree or work-tree.  There's always—well, almost always—one initial work-tree for a repository; you can add more, with git worktree, later, if you like.
Branch names
Now that we know how commits work and what they do for us—store files and act as history, with these backwards-pointing chains of commits—now we can finally understand how Git uses a branch name.  A branch name like master or signup simply holds the hash ID of one commit.  By definition, that commit is the last commit that is "on that branch".  Let's draw this—it probably isn't right, but it's meant to give the flavor of how these work:
          I--J   <-- signup
         /
...--G--H   <-- master
         \
          K--L   <-- Relayout

Here, we show six commits—there are probably lots more before commit G—where each commit points backwards to one previous commit: commit J, which is the latest on signup, points backwards to commit I.  Commit I points backwards to commit H.  (The connecting lines really should have arrow-heads pointing backwards, but I can't draw those very well on StackOverflow.)  Commit L points back to K, which also points back to H.  Commit H points back to G, which points back to whatever else might exist.
An interesting feature of Git is that the commits that are on master are also on both of the other two branches.  Git says that a commit is "on" some branch if, by starting with the branch name and the commit it selects, we can work backwards to find some other commit.
We can also have more than one branch name point to one particular commit.  For instance, in this or some other repository, we could have:
...--P--Q   <-- br1, br2, br3

Here, all three branch names select the same commit, commit Q.  The commits leading up to and including Q are on all three branches.
Whenever we have more than one branch name, though, we need one more piece of information.  In particular, how do we know which branch name we are using?  Git's answer to this is the special name HEAD, which must be written in all capitals like this.4  We "attach" the name HEAD to exactly one branch name:
          I--J   <-- signup
         /
...--G--H   <-- master (HEAD)
         \
          K--L   <-- Relayout

When HEAD is attached to master like this, git branch shows an asterisk next to the name master, to note that we're currently using the name master to find the commit whose hash ID is H.
Whenever we make a new commit, Git makes the commit itself—the snapshot with its metadata—so that the new commit points back to the current commit, as found using the name HEAD.  The new commit gets a new, unique, big ugly hash ID.  Git immediately stores the new hash ID in the current branch name.  So if we have the above, and make new commit N, we get:
          I--J   <-- signup
         /
...--G--H--N   <-- master (HEAD)
         \
          K--L   <-- Relayout

Note how no existing commit has changed.  No commit can ever change: that's how Git makes sure we can always get back anything we committed.  All we did was add the new commit, N, that points back to existing commit H, and make the name master point to new commit N.  The name master is the one that got updated—and N's parent is H—because HEAD is attached to master.

4On a typical macOS system, you can sometimes get away with writing head, in lowercase, instead of HEAD in all-capitals.  This breaks once you start adding more work-trees, so don't get into the habit.  If you don't like typing HEAD because of all the uppercase, consider using its one-character synonym @.

Detached HEAD
If you run:
git checkout OriginalRepo/master

you get, as we noted earlier, a "detached HEAD".  That's because, just like branch names, remote-tracking names point to one commit—but unlike branch names, Git won't let you attach the special name HEAD to a remote-tracking name, and OriginalRepo/master is one of those.
So, suppose we have, say, this:
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master (HEAD)

If we run git checkout on the name OriginalRepo/master, we're asking Git to extract commit G.  That's the commit whose hash ID is stored in the name OriginalRepo/master.  But Git can't attach HEAD to that, because that's not a branch name, it's a remote-tracking name instead.  So we get:
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master, HEAD
      \
       H   <-- master

In this detached-HEAD mode, we have the commit extracted.  We can even make a new commit N just like before, but if we do, the special name HEAD gets updated directly:
       N   <-- HEAD
      /
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master

If we use git checkout master, say, to re-attach HEAD to a branch name, we end up with this:
       N   ???
      /
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master (HEAD)

Commit N still exists.  It's still there in your repository!  But there is no name for it.  The only name that will work is the raw hash ID.  Did you write it down somewhere?
The solution to this dilemma is to add a branch name
If we're on commit N, having made it, we can just add a new branch name right then and there:
       N   <-- xyzzy, HEAD
      /
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master

We can do this with, e.g., git branch xyzzy.  That creates a new branch name xyzzy pointing to the current commit (by writing the current / HEAD-commit hash ID into the new name).  We can then attach HEAD to xyzzy if we like, with git checkout xyzzy.  We don't change commits—we were already on commit N—but now we have:
       N   <-- xyzzy (HEAD)
      /
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master

and any new commits we make will update the name xyzzy.
Or, if we don't yet have commit N and just have this:
...--G   <-- OriginalRepo/master
      \
       H   <-- master (HEAD)

We can tell Git to extract commit G and make it current, then add a new branch name xyzzy and get on it.  We could do this with:
git checkout OriginalRepo/master
git branch xyzzy
git checkout xyzzy

or we can shorten this to:
git checkout -b --no-track xyzzy OriginalRepo/master

You might say: wait, what is this --no-track thing?  It's not really clear whether you should use it, but probably you shouldn't use it.  I put it in because this makes the git checkout -b act exactly the same as the three command variant, git checkout (for detached HEAD) followed by git branch followed by git checkout (to attach HEAD).  This gets us into our last little wrinkle.
Branches have upstreams
In Git, each branch name can have one upstream set.  The upstream setting of a branch is not crucial.  In fact, you can have branches that don't have any upstream.  The purpose of setting an upstream is to make some things convenient.
There's another name for the upstream setting stuff.  It is a terrible name, but it shows up in Git because of the --track and --no-track options.  The bad name for this is to call a branch with an upstream set, a tracking branch.
There are a lot of reasons that this is a terrible name.  The most important one, I think, is that Git has the notion of tracked files vs untracked files, and this is completely separate from branch upstream settings.  There are also those remote-tracking names (or "remote-tracking branch names" if you prefer the Git terminology), and they're also different from upstreams.  So let's use the new term, upstream, to talk about the upstream of a branch.
Typically, the upstream of a branch name like master is a remote-tracking name like origin/master.5  This makes the git status command more useful, and makes it possible to run git pull, git merge, and git rebase without typing in as much stuff.  That's its main function, really.  Setting the upstream makes it easier to run other Git commands, and/or makes their output more useful.
But if the upstream of master is normally origin/master, for instance, what would be the pair of names for OriginalRepo/master?  Obviously, you should have another branch named master whose upstream is OriginalRepo/master.  But there are two problems:

*

*A branch name can only hold one hash ID.

*A branch name can only have one upstream.

Since the name master is the same as the name master, you'll have to break the symmetry here somehow.  You can use a silly name like xyzzy for one of these, for instance: xyzzy can store the same hash ID as OriginalRepo/master, and can have OriginalRepo/master as its upstream.  That solves all of those problems.6
The way to set, or unset, an upstream on an existing branch is to use git branch:
git branch --set-upstream-to=OriginalRepo/master xyzzy

sets the upstream of xyzzy to OriginalRepo/master.  Meanwhile:
git branch --unset-upstream xyzzy

strips out the upstream entirely (if you ever want to do that; there's sometimes reasons, but it's never required).
When you create a new branch name with git checkout -b or git branch, however, you get to choose whether the new name has an upstream already set.  The flag for this is --track or --no-track.  Using --no-track means don't set up an upstream and using --track means do set up an upstream.
So, if you do want to have xyzzy have OriginalRepo/master as its upstream:
git checkout -b xyzzy --track OriginalRepo/master

does that explicitly.  The --track and --no-track are actually defaults, in a complicated way.  I'm going to leave out the full details as this answer is already too long.

5The reason these are called remote-tracking names in the first place is that Git has an entity called a remote.  A remote is mainly a short name, like origin or upstream or OriginalRepo, under which you can store a longer URL.  But Git then uses the remote name to construct the remote-tracking names, which track (i.e., remember the hash IDs from) the branch names in the Git that your Git reaches at that remote.  You can pretty easily get dizzy from all this stuff: a remote holds a URL; a remote-tracking name is built from a remote name plus a branch name; a branch name can have an upstream set, and is then sometimes said to be a "tracking branch"; and files are tracked or untracked, which has nothing to do with any of that!
6This does introduce one problem of its own, which is that one part of Git really wants the names to be symmetric.  In particular, if you ever want to use git push to send updates directly to OriginalRepo, and you have push.default set to simple, Git will demand that the upstream of xyzzy be OriginalRepo/xyzzy, not OriginalRepo/master.  But if you never need to push there, that's not going to be a stumbling block, and if you ever do need that, there are multiple ways around this problem.


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A Quarter in at Lumine
By Kurt DanielOctober 25, 2021June 27th, 2022No Comments
It's now been a full calendar and fiscal quarter since we were acquired by the Lumine Group on July 1, 2021. In this post, I wanted to share a summary of some of the things that have happened since then for our customers and for our team at Ubersmith.
After we closed, we immediately made external and internal announcements by both Ubersmith and Lumine. Our team took the news well and was excited. It was great to see so much support coming from our customers, partners, analysts and others. Our customers, in particular, appreciated that we would no longer be owned by a parent company that competed directly with many of them in the data center and cloud services markets.
There was quite a list of onboarding sessions that various members of our team did with Lumine. These were important to set the foundation right for how we move forward under our new ownership. As part of these, we were exposed to many helpful best practices. I appreciate how open my team was to learning about them and putting them to work as soon as possible to help benefit our customers, our team and our business. We've also had the opportunity to contribute some of our own best practices with the group, which was earlier than expected.
We set up dedicated finance, HR and legal resources to replace what we had regarding shared services from our previous parent company, INAP. In this sense, Ubersmith is finally a complete company in all aspects for the first time in its existence. This is a big deal for our team and will help us drive the business in the best way possible from now on.
While pushing our product forward during the quarter, we have been able to formalize our managed services and professional services efforts while creating many new offerings for each. In late September, we publicly announced the new Managed Services offerings. We expect to provide details on our new professional services offerings soon as well.
Additional areas we have focused on include new security initiatives and systems, new financial and other reporting and a new compliance system and process. Importantly, we've been able to keep our company brand and quite a bit of flexibility in terms of how we lead, manage and operate Ubersmith overall. We've gotten faster, not slower.
While it's been a strongly positive experience overall so far, perhaps the most enjoyable aspect has been the networking and new relationships we've gained across Lumine and its many other portfolio companies. These relationships are typically at the manager or executive level, but the entire team at Ubersmith has been able to benefit from them.
If you have any comments related to our acquisition, I'd love to hear them here, through your main Ubersmith contact (if it's not me) or via our website Contact Us form.
Kurt Daniel
CEO, Ubersmith


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